Biden criticizes Trump over Greenland in first broadcast interview: ‘what the h***’s going on here?’

Former President Joe Biden on Wednesday slammed President Donald Trump for his approach to foreign policy, including his hope of acquiring Greenland and Canada, and taking back the Panama Canal.

The criticism occurred during Biden’s first broadcast interview since leaving the Oval Office in January, which was a wide-ranging interview with BBC News. The former president also discussed dropping out of the presidential race last year, and the first 100 days of Trump’s second term.

Biden largely focused on Trump’s approach to foreign policy, including his response to foreign wars like the Russia-Ukraine war, and commented that Trump’s February meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was “beneath America.” 

The former president, who spent decades in politics where he was known for his focus on foreign affairs, also criticized Trump’s aspirations to purchase Canada and Greenland, stating that it was “not who we are.”

“What the h***’s going on here? What president ever talks like that? That’s not who we are,” Biden said. “We’re about freedom, democracy, opportunity — not about confiscation.”

The comments were a stark contrast to previous former presidents who were more reserved in their criticisms of other administrations. Biden did not sharply criticize Trump’s first 100 days though, opting instead to let “history” judge him.

On the matter of dropping from the presidential race last year, Biden said he did not think it would have mattered if he dropped out before or after his June debate performance, and that quitting was a hard decision to make.

“It was hard to say now I’m going to stop,” he said. “Things moved so quickly that it made it difficult to walk away.”

“I don’t think it would’ve mattered,” Biden added. “We left at a time when we had a good candidate. She was fully funded. And what happened was, I had become—what we had set out to do, no one told me to do, we’d become so successful, our agenda was hard to say ‘I wanna stop now.’”

Biden will be interviewed again on Thursday, this time by ABC’s “The View.” The interviews come after he took a break from public life after his term, but was recently spotted at Pope Francis’ funeral last month, and at a Broadway play.

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.